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MAT chief executives are sounding the alarm over how academies are being rebrokered and trusts penalised for taking on challenging schools

Impact on teachers may be 'devastating and often career ending, even if they are eventually found to have done nothing wrong', says union

Three high-profile multi-academy-trust chief executives are understood to be in the running to replace Amanda Spielman

This week’s education news round-up includes reports of pupils crying over the difficulty of this week's Sats reading paper, Ofqual guidance on mock GCSE exams and an investigation into the drop in the number of teachers over 50

Leader of the Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association will say in an address tomorrow that he fears proposed changes to assessment will ‘only add to teacher workload’

But a new survey shows widespread concerns about how manageable moving to an online system would be for schools

Next month it will be three years since Angela Morgan published her support-for-learning review. She talks about how Scottish education still needs a 'radical redesign'

Even school staff were left 'struggling to understand the questions' in yesterday's key stage 2 Sats reading paper, warns the NAHT

Think tank warns outcomes in primary maths have still not recovered to pre-pandemic levels

Academics have told a Commons committee that a review of RSE should stick to the evidence base and not react to ‘sensationalist examples’ of bad practice

Ofqual warns that putting pupils through too many assessments could have an adverse effect on some students’ mental well-being

The UK statistics watchdog responds to both DfE and NEU over row about affordability of teacher pay offer

Only one in seven teachers thinks the return to pre-pandemic course assessments in Scotland is a positive move at Higher level, Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association research suggests

The next phase of the Welsh universal free meal rollout in primary will begin in September with pupils in Years 3 and 4 benefiting

Three-fifths of teachers spend more time dealing with pupils' emotional needs and behaviour than before the pandemic, survey finds

Watchdog finds staff want more training to support pupils with special educational needs and disabilities

The organisation's shift in language is an attempt to 'deflect criticism of government centralisation of the curriculum', warns headteachers' union boss

But before this can happen, government needs to improve its ’piecemeal and lacklustre’ approach to technology in schools, headteachers‘ leader warns

Teacher stress is not a strong reason to abolish Sats, say researchers after study shows that Year 6 teachers' anxiety levels quickly return to normal after test week

Children's commissioner report on the link between pornography and harmful sexual behaviour among pupils calls for several reforms of RSE teaching in schools

Emma Knights will share top role at National Governance Association with Emma Balchin

Next week Scottish secondary teachers will be asked if they want to campaign for a 7% pay rise in lieu of government promise to reduce class-contact time by 90 minutes

A quarter of Year 11 students who are due to sit GCSE exams this summer were not in school last Thursday, data suggests

ITT providers also warn of dropouts and withdrawals of applications for next year due to rising costs